Reviving Hinduism VII — Varuna’s Ocean
“All the world’s a stage….” is how Jacques starts his famous monologue in Shakespeare’s As You Like It.
This line has been referred to time and again in many other instances, repetitively; to represent the macro context of the universe. We may again take note of the fact that a metaphor is used for easy comprehension of how the universal system is/or how a particular scene in a play is represented and this has been always found to be the best method to do try and define what is going on here and the other option is to actually experience it.
Any experiential knowledge that is acquired is not fully and completely translatable on to medium at any present, as media have their own limitations regarding various aspects, and any contextual knowledge is considered not useful if one does not have the experiential knowledge to make sense of the information thrown at them by any present.
Hence the full picture of the reality of how the universe flows cannot be comprehended from words, sound, visuals, etc. alone; but has to be experienced for the understanding of the universe to be holistic.
We discussed how Indra’s net is toroidal, constant in its motion, and moving away and towards the void at the same instance; and also as a system which is continuously expanding as well (let’s say that it expands in width for better visualization), engulfing all the infinite energy that is dispersed in the infinitely dispersed space.
In Hinduism, this stage, the bed or space where this drama brought about by the flow state plays out, is believed to be in an ocean. It is also believed that the ocean existed before everything else, is primordial, and represents infinity itself.
“Existing before anything else” can be an expression to show the futility of always looking for the start and end of things (duality), when the whole system itself is cyclic.
Since it represents infinity, the ocean is also assumed to be expanding at a rate that is proportionate, to accommodate the increase in width of Indra’s net (which is also expanding and contracting at both ends as discussed earlier), and the process continues as consciousness keeps gaining more and more light. Both consciousness and the ocean seem to grow at a balancing rate between themselves to keep accomodating the flow constantly.
We may also say that the resonating simple harmonic motion of each vajra or jewel will behave, and is observed as a wave when we take the “macro” big picture of this universe, and the up-down motion is what causes the waves in the ocean. (the wind here is the flow itself)
In Hindu belief, it is considered that this ocean represents a deity named Varuna and we see that he is also extensively referred to in the Vedas to represent the importance of his role of keeping ultimate order in this ocean.
Meditation is the best-proven way to gain the experiential knowledge that is required for contextual information observation, and to successfully follow it with backward integration of this comprehended & concise information back to our own belief systems; for a possibly smooth transition from one moment to the next, and eventually from life to death; in presence.
Essentially, the crux of the system is that there are no plays possible without a stage and the existence of a stage defeats its own purpose if there are no plays running. Both of them have their own order to maintain things within and are in order between themselves as well to keep THE flow constant.
Deliberate iteration leads to delegation.
